The multiplicity of activities of the PAM and the resulting variety of competence calls for a broad spread of professions in fields such as administration, management, finance, commercial action, ship reception, collective meals, studies and work, engineering, maintenance, operations, the industrial environment, safety and security, and more.
As an example, you will find below the descriptions of a few basic or typical port professions.
• SECRETARY
• VEHICLE DRIVER
• MECHANIC
• ELECTRICIAN
• SECURITY AGENT
• DOCKER
• WORK SUPERVISOR
• STUDY DRAFTSMAN
• MARITIME TRAFFIC CONTROLLER
• PORT OFFICER
SECRETARY
• Missions
Secretaries’ main missions are currently:
- Reception
- Phone contacts
- Mail management
- Agenda management
- Travel organization.
But the profession is changing. Today, it is no longer a matter of knowing how to type on a keyboard and carry out a task, but also to assist a service head, a manager, organize a meeting, take notes for developing a report, managing certain aspects of a contract, etc.
• Career perspectives
After a few years of professional experience, a secretary can move to an "assistant" level job.
• SEducational prerequisites
Professional baccalaureat with the option best suited to the professional sector or activity of the requesting service.
• Aptitudes
- strict precision
- methodical
- sense of organization.
VEHICLE DRIVER
• Missions
The vehicle driver is a professional worker who drives the port or other hoisting vehicles:
- container gantries
- automobile cranes
- cranes on rails, etc...
• Career perspectives
This is a profession that calls for continual adaptation to the changing handling modes and vehicle technologies.
• Educational prerequisites
Professional baccalaureat
• Aptitudes
- not subject to dizziness
- good visual acuity
- good visual-motor coordination
- self-control.
MECHANIC
• Missions
The mechanic is a professional worker who works in the fields of:
- general mechanics
- or automobile mechanics.
As part of his activities, he maintains, troubleshoots, repairs, improves and renovates the mechanical facilities or vehicles.
• Career perspectives
This is a profession where he will have to take care of a first level of electrical intervention.
• SEducational prerequisites
Professional baccalaureat with major in mechanics, hydraulics, sheet metal work, etc...
• Aptitudes
- method and strict precision
- ability to adapt to changes in the profession.
ELECTRICIAN
• Missions
The electrician is a professional worker who works:
- either on the energy distribution network
- or on the port hoisting vehicles and facilities.
His activities include maintaining, troubleshooting, repairing, raising to conformity, improving and renovating the facilities and tooling.
• Career perspectives
This is a constantly evolving profession that is oriented toward power electricity, dealing daily with:
- automatic systems
- power electronics
- programming.
• Educational prerequisites
Professional baccalaureat
• Aptitudes
- methodical and precise
- capacity to adapt to the evolving profession.
SECURITY AGENT
• Missions
The security agent acts in strict compliance with the Prefectural decision of 19 March 1976. In his mission, he:
- ensures surveillance and control of access doors, general traffic paths, premises receiving passengers, etc.
- writes reports on incidents and legal acts
- accomplishes any other routine missions related to security and prevention.
• Educational prerequisites
Niveau baccalauréat
• Aptitudes
- organization and strictness, sense of human relations and teamwork
- heavy vehicle driver’s license.
DOCKER
• Missions
The docker is a professional worker who participates in the various phases related to the entry of a boat in dry dock and then removing it.
He acts in:
- setting up the stocks to support the boat
- grounding and chocking the ship
- implementing the machinery such as the floating dam and capstan
- flooding of the form.
He also drives the naval repair cranes.
• Career perspectives
He can move toward a job that allows him to take a more active part in the development of the stock site and in the grounding and flooding operations.
• Educational prerequisites
Professional baccalaureat level and good knowledge of carpentry.
• Aptitudes
- predisposed to manual labor
- not subject to dizziness
- sense of teamwork
WORK SUPERVISOR
• Missions
The work supervisor is active in ‘new work’ or ‘maintenance’ in the fields of building construction, civil engineering, tooling and networks.
In his activities, he:
- participates in technical studies
- organizes work site installation
- follows up and ensure proper execution of works
- checks compliance with technical specifications, quality, costs and deadlines.
• Career perspectives
He may be called upon to take charge of study projects farther upstream, and carry them out.
• Educational prerequisites
Technical baccalaureat with a major in building construction, civil engineering, industrial electricity, mechanics, etc.
• Aptitudes
- command and leadership abilities
- strict precision and methodical
- sense of contact and the field.
STUDY DRAFTSMAN
• Missions
The study draftsman is in charge of:
- defining needs with the services and designing technical solutions
- carrying out plans and specifications
- defining methods and means of realization
- defining consultation technical documents
- supervising contractor compliance with study times
- establishing control specifications.
• Career perspectives
He will gradually be drawn more and more into participation in work situations in the field (project implementation and follow-up).
• Educational prerequisites
Associate degree (DUT) from a technological university (DUT) or higher technician’s diploma (BTS) specialized in:
- mechanics, electricity
- civil engineering
- construction, etc.
• Aptitudes
- methodical
- motivation for computer-assisted design and computer tools
- creativity, innovation
MARITIME TRAFFIC CONTROLLER
• Missions
The maritime traffic controller is the port officer’s assistant. At the port authority office, his activity is exercised as a lookout. He takes charge of ships (radio, radar) in the framework of “movement regulation.”
• Educational prerequisites
- merchant marine radio officer’s diploma
- marine officer’s higher diploma (signal man) from the Navy.
• Career perspectives
Advancement in this profession currently calls for one of the following diplomas:
- marine officer’s higher diploma (radio detector) from the Navy
- higher technician’s diploma (BTS) in electronics-telecommunications with experience in professional navigation
- diploma from a technological university in electronics-telecommunications with experience in professional navigation.
• Aptitudes
- good mastery of technical and maritime English
- radio, radar, computer competence
- ability to adapt to working conditions (self-control, decision-making).
PORT OFFICER
• Missions
In the port authority office, the port officer is in charge of:
- foreseeing and managing boat movements
- organizing the transport of dangerous materials
- preventing or fighting pollution
- ensuring the integrity of the public domain by ensuring port administrative police
- overseeing berthing and getting under way operations
- coordinating the actions of the various players: ship captain, pilot, tug, coasting pilot.
The port officer occupies three types of functions:
- preparation of boat port of calls (ship placement officer)
- coordination of means for receiving boats (lookout officer)
- assistance in boat berthing and getting under way (“sector” officer).
• Educational prerequisites
Port officers are recruited by simple candidacy fulfilling the diploma conditions and having navigated a certain number of ears on merchant or navy vessels.
• Career perspectives
The port officer is an employee of the Fayolle Marine port management company.
At the Bastille and Villette ports, he is seconded to the jobs of:
- port lieutenant
- port captain 2nd class
- port captain 1st class.
• Aptitudes
- Self-control
- ability to assume responsibilities
- sense of public service.
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